Today's News

Children who fly too high on the swings or slide too far from the slide at Wendell Moore Park will no longer land in a splintery heap of wood mulch.
Oldham County Parks and Recreation plans to funding from a state grant to install a new playground surface in one of the county’s most used parks.

“Oh what would we do, what would we do if there were no trees?”
The question comes from a children’s song about tree preservation, something students at Harmony Elementary know all about. They had a special Arbor Day program to celebrate trees and the environment last week.

For several months, we’ve been busy remodeling the house.
This past six weeks, while hubby was out of the country, I took it upon myself to rip up carpet, bust up tile, and knock the plaster and lathe from the walls, leaving beams and bricks exposed.
Unfortunately, that’s as far as I got before he came home.

In partnership the Drug Enforcement Administration, Oldham County Sheriff Steve Sparrow and the Oldham County Sheriff’s Office will host a drug take back event Saturday as part of National Drug Take Back Day.

Oldham County has lost a “gentleman’s gentleman” in Gilbert Winters, according to his colleagues.
Winters, who lived in La Grange and served a magistrate for 17 years, died Tuesday, April 12, 2011, at age 85.
He was a farmer and construction worker by trade, and served as a U.S. Marine in World War II.

Justin Kantor has been promoted to Cadet Airman in Civil Air Patrol and received the Major General John F. Curry Achievement Award.
The award is named in honor of Civil Air Patrol’s first national commander during the early days of World War II.
The ceremony took place recently at the U.S. Army Reserve Center, located at Bowman Field.